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BEECHNUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beechnut mean?
• BEECHNUT (noun)
The noun BEECHNUT has 1 sense:
1. small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees
Familiarity information: BEECHNUT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("beechnut" is a kind of...):
edible nut (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)
Holonyms ("beechnut" is a part of...):
beech; beech tree (any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions)
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